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  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/20/23 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Jane Harper's newest Australian-set Aaron Falk mystery, Exiles; adapt her surprise feminist bestseller into a movie--without losing her integrity or being derailed by mysterious But the year-old mysterious disappearance of Kim Gillespie, a young woman from the area, hooks Falk and Then mysterious threats begin appearing within the script, aimed at the writers who are picking apart

  • Review of The Villa by Rachel Hawkins

    The Villa is gothic suspense told in two timelines, both at the same Italian villa, where dark mysteries flighty Chess is a popular, single self-help author and influencer, while Emily, who is emerging from a mysterious long-term illness and in the middle of a contentious divorce, is the author of a successful series of cozy mysteries Hawkins takes us back and forth from the decades-old mystery and deaths at the villa to the growing unease

  • Review of The Gunners by Rebecca Kaufman

    revisiting how shaped we can be by our youth and youthful connections, Kauffman weaves in some minor mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/20/23 Edition

    I'm reading Nocturne, Alyssa Wees's fantasy novel about a prima ballerina in 1930s Chicago and her mysterious listening to Rebecca Makkai's novel I Have Some Questions for You (also to be published tomorrow), about a mysterious boarding school and a return to the case and all the past issues it raises; and I'm reading the newest mystery time reading missing-children stories, and somehow I missed that key aspect of Willingham's newest mystery

  • Review of The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits by Jennifer Weiner

    Then their run abruptly ended, and for the public, the reasons for their breakup were a mystery.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/15/25 Edition

    The first installment in Hafsah Faizal's Blood and Tea series offered intriguing secrets, a swirling mystery

  • November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    writes my favorite kind of fantasy novel: a wonderfully oddball main protagonist, a strange adventure, a mystery through India, New York, family and romantic relationships, and career false starts, with missteps, mysterious Current-day conflicts link to generational trauma, storytelling, and mysterious power.

  • Review of We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker

    There are mysterious forces and machinations, many of which remain unclear to the reader until late in

  • Review of The Dry (Aaron Falk #1) by Jane Harper

    of Nature (Aaron Falk #2) and The Lost Man, which I mentioned in my Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries

  • Review of The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

    setup of key characters leaving off without finishing their illuminating thoughts in order to keep the mystery

  • Three Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now, 9/12/20 Edition

    on the tone of this one yet; Connor is a little snarky, but I believe the plot is going to include mystery #LGBTQ, #youngadult, #mysterysuspense 02 A Very Punchable Face ​ Has Colin Jost lived long enough to Concurrently reading a young adult LGBTQ mystery, a comedian's memoir, and a historical fiction story

  • Review of The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon

    or stops abruptly, and I find myself becoming increasingly frustrated by this method of prolonging a mystery

  • Review of The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei

    I loved the futuristic space-mission capabilities, smart and strong all-woman crew, the mystery and suspicion Asuka must find the real culprit before accusations surrounding the mystery destroy her. Yume Kitasei offers plot and mystery, but this is primarily a wonderfully character-driven story--with

  • March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    friendship . 02 Saoirse by Charleen Hurtubise Count me in for Irish-set novels--and for suspenseful, mysterious-past When she was old enough, Sarah ran from an emotionally cold childhood in Michigan and mysterious circumstances I also love a story involving a character's mysterious past, and I love a suspenseful story that I'm

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/28/26 Edition

    series, Ninth House and Hell Bent, we met Alex Stern, who was offered a new start after surviving a mysterious

  • Six Bossy Favorite Historical Fiction Reads from the Past Year

    Deanna Raybourn While Veronica and Stoker stay close to home while entering into danger and solving the mysteries A mystery surrounds a deadly moment, and the book ends with a hopeful, imperfect, heartbreaking way forward story of young love blossoming, then shriveling under the first pressures of the outside world; it's a mystery

  • Review of The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty

    The only thing that isn't a lie is her mysterious ability to instinctually, instantaneously heal others

  • Review of We'll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida

    Inside, the mysterious Nakagyō Kokoro Clinic for the Soul prescribes medicine to those looking for support

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/18/21 Edition

    and race in Britain; a revenge fantasy with magical realism interwoven throughout; and a new-to-me mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/11/26 Edition

    01 London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth by Patrick Radden

  • Review of The Tapestry of Fate (Amina al-Sirafi Adventure #2) by Shannon Chakraborty

    reader into Amina's frustrating reality as she discovers the emerging truths about her situation and the mysterious

  • Review of The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz

    Laura Amy Schlitz has also written the children's book Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village as well as Splendors and Glooms, a Gothic mystery about puppeteers that

  • Review of The Forgotten Kingdom by Signe Pike

    factors of bloodthirsty vengeance and war between Languoreth's husband and his allies and Lailoken's master The details of everyday life are fantastic, and some characters wield magic and hold mysterious powers

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/8/24 Edition

    Horton's Glorious Revenge, Lizzie Pook's upcoming (January 16) novel of Victorian England and Arctic mystery Then a mysterious stranger arrives--seemingly drawn by her wavering between life and death--and promises

  • Review of Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel

    I thought Wrobel's tone was masterful; it wasn't clear who was manipulating the situation and who was #mysterysuspense, #dysfunctionalfamily, #fourstarbookreview

  • Review of This Book Made Me Think of You by Libby Page

    She receives a mysterious message from the owner of Book Lane, a local London bookshop, and learns that

  • Six Spooky, Gothic Tales

    Desolate settings, mysterious deaths, darkness, hauntings--Halloween, here we come! In Things in Jars, Jess Kidd offers a creepy, dark mystery tale gloriously steeped in details of Victorian Oh, and a mysterious, dangerous, but tragic child-creature-mermaid necessitates detective work and a In Jars offers solid historical fiction details of Victorian London, which I love, within a creepy mystery Behind a door without a key--a door that is sometimes locked and other times mysteriously not--a "silent

  • Review of The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason

    ICYMI: Daniel Mason's atmospheric, mysterious, languorous story is of a shy piano tuner's trip to Burma

  • Review of Legend (Legend #1) by Marie Lu

    The master plan executed at the end of the book has a few twisty moments I liked, and while the story potentially intriguing aspects of Lu's world--the history of the split between the Republic and Colonies; the mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/24/21 Edition

    themes about society's reliance on attention and outside stimulation; a gritty modern-day, small-town mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/11/23 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to The Running Grave, the newest in the mystery series by Robert Grave (Cormoran Strike #7) by Robert Galbraith I'm listening to The Running Grave, the newest in the mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/29/21 Edition

    that may get them both killed; and Jennifer McMahon's dive into a family's haunting history that has mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/17/21 Edition

    I've got a mysterious story with an unreliable narrator and an imagined nationwide hubbub (a la "baby

  • Six of My Favorite Reads of the Year So Far

    Exiles was the right mystery at the right time for me. Similarly, when he stumbles onto a truth about his own mysterious heritage--a mystery he felt he had Jess Kidd is the author of Things in Jars, a mystery I gave four Bossy stars--and listed in two Greedy Reading Lists, Six Spooky, Gothic Tales and Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Sure to Intrigue You. In Dawes, he meets eccentric, wealthy art lovers John and Eve Long--mysterious, possibly hiding something

  • Review of Pretty Things by Janelle Brown

    spoiled socialite—and one of the cons aims to right some wrongs in two of the characters' shared (but mysterious #mysterysuspense, #fourstarbookreview

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/24/21 Edition

    the attention of a nearby diner, who mistakenly interprets what's happening and leaves Finlay with a mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/28/23 Edition

    narrative nonfiction set in the late nineteenth century West; I'm reading Kate Morton's dual-timeline mystery Morton's story explores secrets, loyalties, mysteries, and the complicated matter of coming home.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/11/24 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Lisa Gardner's newest Frankie Elkin missing-person mystery, Still Our Yesterdays; and I'm listening to Kirsten Bakis's gothic novel set on a cold, remote island with mysterious

  • Six Four-Star (and Up) Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year

    In Dawes, he meets eccentric, wealthy art lovers John and Eve Long--mysterious, possibly hiding something two timelines, a decades-old tragedy, and a modern-day descendant's discovery of her family's link to mysterious There are two mysteries surrounding the Turner Tragedy: the whodunit aspect and the unexplained disappearance This is a long (it's almost 550 pages), winding story with complicated connections and mysterious motivations Morton's story explores secrets, loyalties, mysteries, and the complicated matter of family--those you

  • August Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    The list skews toward light fiction, but I've got a mystery, a great novel by Allison Larkin, and a wonderfully

  • Review of The Night Ship by Jess Kidd

    Jess Kidd is the author of Things in Jars, a mystery I gave four Bossy stars--and listed in two Greedy Reading Lists, Six Spooky, Gothic Tales and Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Sure to Intrigue You.

  • November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    my six favorite reads of the past month: Renaissance-set historical fiction, two historical fiction mysteries Lady Sherlock #1) by Sherry Thomas This first book in Sherry Thomas's gender-flipped Sherlock Holmes mystery A Restless Truth is the second in Freya Marske's queer fantasy mystery Last Binding trilogy that began By doing so, Maud aims to help her beloved older brother resolve a magical mystery that's been decades A Restless Truth is fun and quirky yet has depth, an appealingly complicated mystery, and a satisfying

  • Review of Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy

    made famous by a well-known author that is directly referenced within the text), so there isn't much mystery

  • Review of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

    The man, who reveals that he was called Good Stab by his family and friends, appears mysteriously in

  • Review of Silver Elite by Dani Francis

    The Mystery of Dani Francis This is the first book by Dani Francis, and her anonymity on social media

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/23/25 Edition

    As the community wonders at his mysterious appearance, they embrace Brandon, as he is ultimately named

  • Review of The Resurrectionist by A. Rae Dunlap

    affected by the complication of societal intolerance for gay relationships in this period), plus the mystery

  • Review of The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher #22) by Lee Child

    Reacher novels since 1997, so whether you're committed to the series or you only dabble in suspense, mystery #mysterysuspense, #series, #threestarbookreview

  • Six Books Set in Australia that Are Fair Dinkum Fascinating

    Exiles was the right mystery at the right time for me. For my full review, check out Exiles. 02 The Wife and the Widow by Christian White White's twisty mystery This was like a Secret Garden for grown-ups, with intertwined, mysterious stories from 1900, 1975, and For my full review, check out Only Killers and Thieves. 06 The Lost Man by Jane Harper Harper's mysteries I listed this book in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year.

  • September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    stories about sharp, disparate septuagenarians who meet to resolve cold cases--then aim to solve the mysteries In this first installment in Osman's mystery series, the story begins in medias res , as the reader witnesses And you can find Bossy reviews of many other mysteries here .

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